Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-13
EARLY HORSE LITERATURE.

EARLY HORSE LITERATURE.
In volume l of the American Turf Reg
lister it is stated that family of Beans
lived in Clark Co., Ky, near Winchester
Parish. Pilot was bred near there.
Bayles, who lived near Louisville, near
Dorsey's knew all about Pilot.
The issue of the Register for April 30.
1881, contains report of racing at New
Orleans; fourth day, for silver cup, best
three in five Marshall Ney, 3, ,, |, l;
Cow Driver, |, l, fell and distanced /;
Martha Taylor, 2, 3, ,, 2; time, first
heat, AZ; second, 40; third, :53 ;
fourth, 90 The track was in fine or
der during the four days racing. [Quer-
ry-Was the course full mile?1
p. 10l, vol. . Pennsylvania Farmer
mare got by Penn Farmer, bred by John
Hoomes of Bowling Green.
Page 1l3: John Richards, b. c., four
years old, by Sir Archy, ran at Newmark-
ct in 1923.
Page 40: Account of Tom Thumb,
the American horse, trotting, in England.
l6 IL miles in an hour.
Importatons into New York: Page
PIG, Wildair, etc, by Mr.. Delaney; p.
256, Messenger Duroc, owned by E. & A.
Stephens of Greene Co., n. Y, dark
chestnut, 1913, by Duroc. dam by i'm
ported Messenger, etc. Diomed. import
ed by Col. Hoomes, about 1893; died
1907.
Page 3lS: List of stations for 1881 {;
many from Diomed none from Messen-
ger. Exton Eclipse by Eclipse, dam by
EXton; kennebec Co., Me-, at Sl5 to
$40. Henry H., by Henry, dam by Sir
Lovely, at Cambridge. n. Y, by f.
Long. Messenger Duroc at Batavia.
y. Y, at SO to $40, by f. Stephens. W.
Bishop advertises Warsaw by Eclipse at
Hoosck Falls, y. Y.
Page $50: Truxton, a stud horse,
raised by me and sold to Gen. Andrew
Jackson of Tennessee. | do certify was
got by the imported horse Diomed. TruX-
tons dam, Nancy Coleman, was got by
IL. u
Old Partner; her grandam by the i'm
ported horse jolly Roger; her great
grandam by the imported horse Skim out
of a Barb mare. Given under my hand
this 10th day of March, lSOG. Signed |
John Nirell.
Page 315: Messenger, gray, got by
Mambrno, his dam by Turf, grandam by
Regulus out of the dam of Snap. He
was large and well formed and his stock
is very valuable as racers and for any
other service. He was sire of Empress.
Miller'S Damsel. Mr.. Bonds Sir solomon.
Bright Phoebus and grandsre of the eel
ebrated New York Eclipse. He was
foaled in l7SS.
Page 81: Bussorah Arabian was i'm
ported by Messrs. Ogden of New York
in lS20.
Page 1873: Grand Bashaw, beautiful
iron gray, II hands one inch high, was
imported from Tripoli by Joseph c. Nor
gan, in 1920, then about four years old.
Mr.. Morgan had resided there several
years and selected him from the best
stock of Arabian horses known at the
time. y premium of $50 was awarded
him in 1923 by the Pennsylvania society
on account of his superior blood, form,
action. etc. He stood in 1927 in Whit
marsh township II miles from Philadel-
phia.
Page 10, vol. l, article on the Wildalrs.
Page 80 is article on American trotters
in England-Tom Thumb and Rather.
Vol. |, page 80 of the American Turf
Register is advertised under date of 1898,
Pennsylvania Farmer, bred by Col.
Taylor Query, Tayloe:) of Virginia
got by the noted horse Partner, out of a
full-blooded mare.
Page G3 is an article on the Hunting
Park (Trotting Club association of
Philadelphia. Page 81 is article on
Lindsay's Arabian.
Page l2i is an article on "Foot-Trot-
ting" from the English Sporting Maya
zine for August, lS2S, in which Top
Gallant by Hambletonain, Betsey Baker
by MambrinO, Trouble by lIambletonian,
Screw-Driver by Mount Holley dam,
Build, and Sir Peter and Whalebone, both
by Hambletonian, are spoken of; and the
correspondent, who is -. NJ" of Phila-
dclphia, says the last two, Sir Walter and
Whalebone, can be matched against Rat
tier or Tom Thumb, now in England, for
any amount Rather is from an English
imported horse, out of Canadian mare,
and Tom Thumb is Narragansett, an ex-
cellent breed of horses, but of unknown
origin.
Page 1868: Snow Storm, bay horse,
owned by +. Warfield of Lexington, Ky,
in 1880; got by Contention, etc.
Page 420, 1917; bay mare Orange got
by Ringgold, also called Cooper's Mes
senger, her dam by Slasher (both capital